“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.”
Source: On Tulsidas’s epic Ramacharritamanas, P.E.Keay in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 35
“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.”
“Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.”
Source: City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
Equinoctial Regions of America (1814-1829)
Vyasa’s curse to the first widowed wife of his half brother on the son to be born to them. His mother [Satyavati] had asked him to produce heirs to the throne with the two widows of his half-brother. The first princess closed her eyes as Vyasa was in fearful ascetic condition when he slept with her. In due time Dhritarshtra was born blind. Quoted in p. 58.
Sources, Seer of the Fifth Veda: Kr̥ṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa in the Mahābhārata
“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“To a great experience one thing is essential — an experiencing nature.”
Shakespeare
Literary Studies (1879)
Tout ce que nous connaissons de grand nous vient des nerveux. Ce sont eux et non pas d'autres qui ont fondé les religions et composé les chefs-d'œuvre.
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